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noun
A woman who (among others) has the potential to become one's wife, or who is fulfilling the role of one's wife in addition to one's actual wife; a concubine
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From side + wife. Compare Dutch bijwijf (“concubine”).
